What are your favorite article directories? Why?

[Irnes Jakupovic]

Originally Posted by FranksToys

Hey Irnes,

Thanks for the link, although I'd say that you should probably go through and update the list. Most of those article directories are either very slow for approval, or make you jump through some pretty crazy hoops to get you to have a live article on their sites.

Just my $0.02, I also originally used a very similar list when first starting out with article submissions and only a few of those are still on my "must do" list.

Thanks for the tip Frank but my list is strictly focusing on the traffic each of these article direcotries gets and not anything else.

[FranksToys]

Originally Posted by Irnes Jakupovic

Thanks for the tip Frank but my list is strictly focusing on the traffic each of these article direcotries gets and not anything else.

Oh gotcha! Thanks for pointing that out. Love your site as well.

[subse7en]

Hey FranksToys, which article directories take forever to approve articles, as I'd like to remove them from my submission list too?!

[jrod11]

Originally Posted by subse7en

Hey FranksToys, which article directories take forever to approve articles, as I'd like to remove them from my submission list too?!

Ezine takes a long time for me. i'm not a VIP member or anything, but it does seem to take a very long time just to get them approved. Articlebase is pretty quick and I have had rysite.com take only a few hours to have my articles submitted.

[Irnes Jakupovic]

Originally Posted by FranksToys

Oh gotcha! Thanks for pointing that out. Love your site as well.

Thanks Frank.

Originally Posted by jrod11

Ezine takes a long time for me. i'm not a VIP member or anything, but it does seem to take a very long time just to get them approved. Articlebase is pretty quick and I have had rysite.com take only a few hours to have my articles submitted.

The problem with rysite in my opinion is that there tweeting service isn't anything to brag about at this point. They only have 42 followers and their traffic is not too great for an article directory.

Rysite Directory (rysite) on Twitter

It's a great concept but they should definitely try to build up that twitter account of theirs it's the highlight of the site in my opinion.

[jrod11]

Originally Posted by Irnes Jakupovic

Thanks Frank.



The problem with rysite in my opinion is that there tweeting service isn't anything to brag about at this point. They only have 42 followers and their traffic is not too great for an article directory.

Rysite Directory (rysite) on Twitter

It's a great concept but they should definitely try to build up that twitter account of theirs it's the highlight of the site in my opinion.

Although I was confused by that at first as well, that apparently is not the twitter account that the articles get syndicated through. I emailed the guy and asked him. He said that was just for testing reasons to make sure the articles were syndicated and was supposed to be to for users to follow the actual site in the future, and not the articles.

[va_mom]

Originally Posted by tferraro11

By the way, I love scribd. They can bring a lot traffic as well.

EZA and scribd also... :-) works like magic!

[Domenic Carlson]

Goarticles is a good one. Ezinearticles is a classic. I also like Squidoo a lot.

[uktelsysco]

Ezinearticles:- Massive Amounts of Qualified Traffic.
GoArticle:- Content is updated daily
ArticleBased:- Fast Approval

[jrod11]

Originally Posted by Domenic Carlson

Goarticles is a good one. Ezinearticles is a classic. I also like Squidoo a lot.

Squidoo is more like a site for pages. Have you been uploading articles as individual pages or multiple articles on each lens?

[snagerries]

For me, ezine articles and articlebase works great and I get great number of visitors from here.

[Promet_MKTG]

never heard of rysite.com thanks for the info ill post my experience when i use it

[wolfmmiii]

EZA hands down for article submission and Squidoo for easy site creation for backlinking purposes.

[jrod11]

Originally Posted by wolfmmiii

EZA hands down for article submission and Squidoo for easy site creation for backlinking purposes.

Do you send links to your squidoo account? What is your method for using squidoo?

[FranksToys]

Originally Posted by jrod11

Do you send links to your squidoo account? What is your method for using squidoo?

I'll chime in here since it looks like the other member was banned. I like to send backlinks from Article Directories to other Web 2.0 properties like Squidoo and Hubpages to make those properties as strong as possible, and then link to my money site.

It somewhat depends on your strategy, Hubpages and Squidoos will rank better out of the gate then a small domain. You can basically "hijack" the power of those domains and rank for medium competition keywords.

[kb24]

ive had issues with ezine..plus they take too long.. i think i'll try rysite..

[dahlgren_m]

Another question while on the topic of article directories.

How many article directories do you post to? Let's say you're promoting a money page, isn't it better to promote them to as many "respected" directories as possible?

Or do you still use just 2 or 3?

[slma88]

Does anyone have good backlink results with Magic Article Submitter? It auto submit to few hundred directories.

[Daniel Ong]

ezinearticles.com
and of cos submityourarticle.com which is able to help your sumbit your articles to thousands of artice directories.

[fahadkhan14]

According to my experience, Articlebase is the best. I avail many benefits from it.

[zenconsultants]

ezinearticles, goarticles and articlebase are the favorite article directories according to me.

[All Night Cafe]

I like ezinearticles here lately. It
is the only one I'm working with.

I'm in testing mode.

[sousen]

I am fan of Articledashboard and ezine these send me direct traffic and ezine link is very strong

[Turtlet]

GoArticles is good for building links, whereas EZine is good for traffic

[valiantbearded]

Buzzle is my favorite, if I'm looking to build their public relations and traffic to a page. My articles seem to get a PR 2-3 after only three months or less compared with a full year in the electronic edition.

[Janet Matthews]

If you use an article submitter presumably that submits the same article to lots of different sites. Several people seem to be saying that you submit to ezine first and then to other sites. Can this be done with an article submitter??

Also some people are saying to spin the article before submitting it to differnt article sites. This all seems very confusing - is there a rule of thumb that is easy to follow regarding whether or not you can submit the same article to multiple sites???

[FamilyFrugal]

Thanks for this great post. I have several of these article sites bookmarked now. To be honest, I only knew about Ezine.

So here's a total newb question...do you link back to yourself in the article with your desired keyword or in the sig box?

[wordpresstrainingpackage]

You dont need a lot of article directories for your article marketing. Maintaining 2 or 3 directories is enough. There is no point sending an article to thousands of article directories. Most of these directories are useless, in addition to the fact that you would be creating duplicate content sending your articles to all of them

[calfred]

As much as I want to like Article Dashboard, they always take super long to approve my articles (unique), from 2 to 4 weeks.

[Chri5123]

Ezine Articles #1 for me and then Article Base - but will have to check out that Rysite - the tweeting bonus looks good as they claim to targeted twitter accounts.

[submitedgeseo]

Articlebase is my favorite article directory as this directory has the instant publishing option. Also articles on this directory are get indexed very quickly in the google and it helsp to get more benefits for my website.

[Newyork204]

Thanks for the list. I appreciate it. Oh, one more thing. Don't forget about Inforbarrel

And in case people did not mention it already Hubpapges and Squiddo are also good.

[tanmaysasvadkar]

Ezine articles is definitely top dogg but not the only game in town.

Go Articles works well and you get instant submission. On just needs to pick the right keywords for their title to get ranked.